# Changelog of Encuentra24 Scraper - Central America Property Listings (`sian.agency/encuentra24-property-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/encuentra24-property-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/encuentra24-property-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to the Encuentra24 Property Scraper are documented here.

### \[2026-10-21]

#### 🔧 Fixed

- 🏠 **Searches return listings again.** Since late September most runs ended with "Encuentra24 did not serve this page". The actor now connects through routes Encuentra24 accepts, and searches in every country section return results.

### \[1.0.0] - 2026-09-09

First release. Houses, apartments, land and commercial property from encuentra24.com, across nine
country sections in Central America and the Caribbean.

#### What it does

- **Property Search** — pick a country, a market (for sale or to rent) and a property type, and get
  listings back 20 to a page, as deep as you ask. Or paste any Encuentra24 search URL and it is used
  exactly as given.
- **Listing Lookup** — refresh listings you already hold, by URL or by the numeric ID at the end of
  one. Useful for tracking a saved shortlist.
- **54 fields per listing**, of which 24 populate on every row: the full Spanish advert text, every
  photo, price and currency, price per m², maintenance fee, built area, lot size, bedrooms,
  bathrooms, parking, amenities, and the advertiser behind the listing.

#### Coverage

Nine country sections, each verified on 2026-09-08 by fetching it and recording what came back —
145,198 listings — 100,209 for sale and 44,989 to rent.

| Country | For sale | To rent |
|---|---:|---:|
| Panama | 51,505 | 20,043 |
| Costa Rica | 20,054 | 8,963 |
| Nicaragua | 7,994 | 3,381 |
| Dominican Republic | 9,284 | 4,601 |
| Guatemala | 4,847 | 4,302 |
| Honduras | 2,663 | 1,451 |
| El Salvador | 3,038 | 1,387 |
| Puerto Rico | 388 | 199 |
| Colombia | 436 | 662 |

All nine were measured by fetching the market's own top-level page; the totals are what the portal
itself reported on 2026-09-08.

Chile, Spain and Paraguay have country sections on the site but carry no property inventory, so
they are deliberately **not** offered.

#### User Benefits

- **You are only charged for listings you receive.** Encuentra24 publishes no price, bedroom or size
  filter of its own, so those filters are applied to the listings the run collects — anything a
  filter excludes is never delivered and never billed. A search that matched nothing, and an input
  that could not be read, both cost nothing.
- **Empty is reported as empty.** About 43% of listings carry real coordinates; the portal stores
  0/0 for the rest and those arrive blank, not as a point in the Atlantic. Half the listings carry a
  template placeholder instead of a street address, and that is blanked too.
- **A filter cannot silently widen.** A region the portal does not recognise returns nothing and
  says so, rather than quietly handing back the whole country at the whole country's price.
- **Search is priced as the cheap path, and the docs say so.** A search listing carries exactly the
  same fields as a lookup, so the docs tell you to use search unless you already hold specific
  listings.
- **No setup.** No API key, no login, no proxy configuration, nothing to maintain.

#### Use Cases

- **Market analysis** — median price per m² by province, and how the mix shifts month to month.
- **Cross-border investor screening** — four countries in one table with one price-per-m² column.
- **Agency and developer lead lists** — every row names the company holding the listing.
- **Rental yield modelling** — the same district for sale and to rent, joined on area and bedrooms.
- **Price and inventory monitoring** — a daily run, diffed on listing ID.
- **Relocation search** — filter a Spanish-language portal by budget and bedrooms in one pass.

#### Notes

- Advertiser phone and WhatsApp numbers are **not** extracted. The portal scrambles them
  deliberately and they belong to private individuals. What is returned is the publicly displayed
  business identity: name, company, advertiser type, licence and verified status, plus whether a
  phone or WhatsApp channel is offered.
- Encuentra24 publishes asking prices only. There is no sold-price register behind it, so tracking
  price movement means running on a schedule and diffing the results.
- Data comes back in Spanish, as the portal publishes it.